The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-08-07
ALL THE NEWS
OF WEST VIRGINIA RECORDED IN
BRIEF SPACE.
Incidents and Accidents and Matters
Miscellaneous.
1ut SCISSORS Anf Nihn.

Old Aunt Nelly, q colored inmate
of the Jefferson county infrmary,
died there recently, aged log. She
was quite spry up to n short time
before her death.
Doddridge county is to have a
new $3.50 jail 1t will be built by
the Pauley Jail Building and Manu-
featuring Company, Of st. Louis.
Tucker county has contracted with
the same company for cells for its
Jail, for $4,000. The same firm will
build a Jail for Lincoln county.
There are now 76l patients under
treatment at the Insane Asylum at
Weston, and from many parts of the
State come complaints about the
number of insane that have to he
kept in county jails because of no
room at the Asylum. Work on the
addition is being pushed as rapidly
as possible.
The Shippensburg Fishing Club
encamped on the Potomac, near
Shepherdstown, near the spot where
the Corn Exchange regiment of
Philadelphia met with such terrific
loss after the battle of Antietam.
found ON the Inflated spot the entire
skeleton of a soldier and an officer S
saber, the latter in perfect condition.
There are now nearly three hun
bred men engaged in getting out
timber in Tucker county which is
to be worked into wood pulp at the
mills now being erected at Harpers
Ferry. 1t is said that forty tons of
wood pulp will be made daily and
the paper mills adjoining will be of
a capacity sufficient to make it all
into paper
A most miraculous escape from a
terrible deathe transpired in Charles
ton last Friday evening. Anna, the
nine year old daughter of Charles
Blaine and wife, who live with Miss
Annie Ruffner on east Lee street,
went to the well to draw bucket OF
water. While leaning over to sink
the bucket her feet slipped, and she
fell headlong into the well, a distance
of about thirty feet Almost, as il
were, by inspiration, the falling child
caught the rope which she held UNI
til she reached the bucket
when she called for them to draw
her up. Fortunately her voice was
heard, and she was rescued from 9
terrible death with only brnise on
the head, occasioned by striking the
side Of the well.
The guests at the White Sulphur
Springs, that most famous of al
Southern summer resorts, located in
the picturesque mountains of this
State, now number about 900, an6
the daily arrivals average over fifty
Among the most prominent arrivals
are Gen. Roger A. Pryor, Of New
York; Gen. T. S. Rosser, of Virginia
Joseph r. Anderson, of Richmond
Col. VIM r. Royal, the Virgini;
attorney of the foreign bond holders
Judge Gilbert, of New York; Gen
Simon Boliver Buckner, probably
the next Governor of Kentucky
Gov. Dennison's family, of Colum
, bus, O.; DR.. cambridge, of Cincin
! natl; Judge Waelder of Waco, Tex
r as, and Signor Gano, Gillian minis
! ter to this country.
{ A telegram from Cumberland
e dated July 9th, says: Scott w
| Dawson was shot and instantly kill
ed at Rawlings Station this evening
e about six o'clock, by one Henr,
Spencer, living near Keyser, W. Va
2 The particulars are hard to obtain
I 1t seems now that about seven year
p ago Dawson was sent to the peni
$ Tertiary for three years for a crimi
nal assault on cousin of his whom
, Spencer afterwards married, and b,
/ whom he has a family. The tw
: men have not met for years unit
r this evening, when, after few in
e sulting words, Spencer drew a re
!. volver and fired three shots at Daw
0 son, all taking effect in his hea'
4 and neck with the result above men
f toned. Spencer is now under al
n rest and on his way to this city
$ Feeling is said to be strong agains
h him where the shooting occurred
s Dawson was about fifty-five year
J. old and leaves family"
S Two or three years ago marie
d man of Wood county, was sent t
c the penitentiary for stealing a hors,
+ While he was in that institution hi
S wife became attached to another ma
If and went to live with him some dis
l. lance up the Ohio river. When til
y penitentiary man had served hi
II time out he returned home and, hi
e wife being gone, he married anothe
woman. His first wife soon tired {
n her second choice and left him, BIT
a did not return to her old neighbol
J. hood in Wood county. Meanwhile
e she and her first husband kept up
II correspondence although both {
n them were married second tim
n Now for the denouenent. Saturda
/ the Lubbock district man sold all {
LID Sui bhiy poooCooloAo CASCPo II
second wife, whom he took with hi
D. up the river. 1t is believed that |
re is now living with both of thes
st women. 1t is a case of too much
A. married
er There was recently concluded
the Circuit Court of Greenbri
l. county very interesting case. I'll
o suit was that of Jarrett VS.. Keene
u, and involved some $4,000 in none
10 and $4,000 worth of property, an
t. was settled in favor of Keeney. I'll
ct story of the case briefly told is :
ID follows: Samuel Jarrett was
lg wealthy old bachelor who used
Of live in Greenbrier county. He W;
I'd an eccentric character, and refuse
d. to associate with his relatives;
TO fact they knew but little Of hil
lie John Keeney and wife lived on ia
III rett's farm, and, it seems, manage
n his affairs. They took core of hi
n in his old age, and in his last We
did all for him that could be don
a A year or so ago Jarrett died al
IN willed all of his fortune to Keen'
~ and his wife. Jarrett's relativ